Word: useless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McNicholas' archiepiscopal nose, Father Coughlin turned up to address a mass meeting of his National Union for Social Justice. In fine oratorical fettle he intemperately roared: "When any upstart dictator in the U. S. succeeds in making this a one party form of government, when the ballot is useless, I shall have the courage to stand up and advocate the use of bullets. . . . Mr. Roosevelt is a radical. The Bible commands 'increase and multiply,' but Mr. Roosevelt says to destroy and devastate. Therefore I call him anti-God and radical...
...basement, the laundry, last year found so old as to be useless, has been torn out and new machinery ordered, but, due to unknown causes, is as yet delayed. When completed, this unit will be able to turn out a better job than the old one in much less time, saving labor and money for other purposes...
Great Provocation. With both Left and Right convinced that the self-satisfied President had cast himself in the role of umpire and considered useless any attempt to prevent Spaniards from shooting out their political differences, the stage for Civil War was set. The Cabinet's radical Minister of Labor, only recently a jailbird, took to locking up Madrid employers and keeping them in jail until they yielded to the demands of their striking employes. The Left, feeling stronger, every day in its purpose to maneuver the Republic into a Soviet, then offered great provocation: the assassination of the leader...
...inflicted on his pride. . . . Byron died in uremic coma, a not uncommon end for le ban viveur." Christopher Columbus, after siring Diego by his wife and Fernando by the mistress of his widowerhood, contracted syphilis which Dr. Kemble contends is a New World disease. "With his limbs rigid and useless, his brain affected and his heart enfeebled, Columbus lingered on until . . .he died from cardiac failure due to valvular disease...
...readiness to die for Mussolini immediately after Mussolini became Premier. "Remembering how little desire he had shown to lose his life during the War I was amazed," Lussu reflected, "that he should be so anxious to die in time of peace." Another democratic Deputy told Lussu that opposition was useless, since tyranny could never triumph over faith. Then when a group of Fascists passed he replied to the Fascist salute, complained bitterly that Italians were developing a slave psychology...